The Wire (TV Series) The Hunt (2002) User Reviews

She took two for the company; That's the only lesson here

[snoozejonc · 10/10 · 1 April 2022]

This is a brilliant episode with great character moments and a compelling plot.

The fallout from the final scene of the previous episode is the main focus and it has contains everything that makes 'The Wire' a great show.

We see another very realistic portrayal of the senior leadership, as the top brass of the police showboat their way through a crisis. This is all very recognisable to me and I feel the frustration portrayed in the faces of the characters involved.

The character Bill Rawls has a positive episode, with memorable contributions to the plot and character interactions. One speech he gives to another character is one of the most memorable of the entire show. John Dorman is fantastic as always.

This is my first viewing of this episode since reading 'Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets' and some of the themes covered in the book, such as the importance of the first 24 hours in a murder investigation and the potential for the crime scene to be 'murdered' by police cluttering up the location, are nicely acknowledged. I love Cool Lester Smooth's epic moment to shine.

It is a classic Jimmy McNulty episode and Dominic West brilliantly takes the character through a range of emotions relating to events unfolding. Likewise Andre Royo has a great showing with some excellent and ironic material for the character Bubs.

Visually it is a cracker, with the camera telling the story superbly well and the editor putting it all together seamlessly. The transition between the final two scenes is fantastic.

almost unique in all crime dramas

[roedyg · 8/10 · 11 December 2014]

This one episode "The Hunt" of The Wire is almost unique in all crime dramas.

Usually when people get killed in crime dramas or murder mysteries, nobody shows any remorse or emotion. If anyone does, it is because they are the culprit trying to distract attention. Sometimes you see a bit character who goes hysterical for a short scene, but these characters are ridiculed as unmanly, homosexual, scatterbrained, irrational or even comic relief ("I told him, Julie, don't go.")

The most emotion you might see is one cop say, "It was too bad someone so pretty/young/talented/sexy bit the big one. She didn't deserve this. Let's nail the bastards who did this".

In this episode, one of the regulars, Greggs, is shot in the line of duty by drug dealers, and is in hospital. It is nip and tuck whether she will survive, or recover sufficiently to continue her role.

In this episode, some of the other regulars react much more like real humans would, with anger, despair or sadness. They are so distraught that they cannot function. They do what they can to help each other through it. They also show the suffering of her lover, in a quite realistic way.

It was an unusually moving drama. The actors were quite convincing and tugged at your heartstrings. It was almost TOO intense.

1x11

[formotog · 8/10 · 8 August 2020]

Yet again, very good. This must be the most consistent season of television I've ever watched. Following the events of the end of last episode, we got a lot of character exploration in this one. The range of emotional responses to Kima's critical condition was amazing and it is once again tribute to the amazing writing this show continues to deliver. The scene between McNulty and Rawls in the hospital especially was very nicely done. Things seem to have slowed down with the Barksdale crew, but we did get a bust this episode and best believe these cops are all as motivated as ever to get to the bottom of this case

Low 8

Dope on the table

[RainDogJr · 10/10 · 30 April 2009]

Usually we get to see Jay Landsman only in the office, usually making fun, just being annoying with other detectives but here we see him working, looking for clues and certainly is in the crime scene where Orlando was killed and Greggs was shot where Landsman, Bunk and other men are doing their job. So we have the people from homicide on one hand and on the other we have Lester and Prez.

Wee-Bey and Little Man: the shooters completed successfully the job however there's this girl that disconcerted them. Wee-Bey will get the worst possible news from Stringer: that girl was a cop and worst for them she is still alive. Little Man was the one who shot Greggs so there's another job for Wee-Bey who will be in Philadelphia but not before he indicates to D'Angelo what to do with his fishes (a truly great scene with D'Angelo thinking in the worst and finally finding that all was just a fish matter).

Burrell wants to act, he wants dope on the table and again he is f****** the investigation. Our detectives found a stash house previously, now when Burrell orders for dope on the table their plan is to attack in other places but the stash house however Burrell will order to go for the main source allowing to Daniels, McNulty and Lester to finally realize that there's someone in the detail that says everything to Burrell, Daniels stopped doing that so who's the rat? We will find that but here what about our main guy McNulty? Well, is McNulty feeling guilty (Rawls said just about right) but of course the show must go on and here is again f****** Levy doing it nicely.

20 years later, this is still what happens when the police are the victims

[michiganave_p · 10/10 · 19 June 2022]

I personally think is the most impactful of The Wire and is also the most realistic.

One of the things I have never been able to understand about the structure of police or the policing individual itself is what happens when it is one of them is the subject of violence. It feels as soon as "they take one for the team", detectives, captains, patrolmen all of the sudden have a superpower of solving crimes fast and accurately. They have suspects, charges, evidence in what it seems like a matter of no time at all.

If you or I get shot, it's more of "meh" laissez faire approach, which makes this episode infuriating in terms of the reality of Police in the 2020's.

The opening scene is overwhelming but is accurate. It's just unbelievable how good these people can be at their jobs, if they are motivated. And sadly, the only motivation they get for doing the job well is when one of them is hurt and a switch is flipped where they can close cases again, or in Wire speak, turn red into black, like its nothing.

The level of skill, care, emotions and eventual resolve to trying to find out who shot Greggs is palpable in this episode despite the immediate need to take down some low hanging fruit in the Baltimore crime world. Bunk is good as usual, even though you see him bend the rules which is uncharacteristic of him in general, but this is one of the episodes where I really fell in love with Wendell's character. Actual investigating happening and leading to charges and the trial at the end of the season.

Perfect

[gedikreverdi · 3 December 2021]

Little Man and Bey are on the run after they shot an officer. Wallace is coming back and Dee thought Bey was going to kill him when he took him to teach him how to feed his fish in fish tanks.